The Crown actor and Kate Fleetwood will join Ewan McGregor in Lila Raicek’s My Master Builder, inspired by Ibsen

Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki, best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is to return to London theatre this summer.

Debicki, whose last London role was in the thriller The Red Barn at the National Theatre in 2016, will star in American playwright Lila Raicek’s My Master Builder. It was announced last month that Ewan McGregor will play the lead role of an architect in the play. On Friday it was announced that Debicki has been cast as the architect’s former student, whose arrival disrupts a Hamptons house party thrown by his wife, who will be played by Kate Fleetwood.

Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London
Jordan Kai Burnett impresses in a fun, heartfelt yet tonally uneven show, co-produced by Michelle Visage

In Tim Burton’s 1990 fairytale, you hear Edward Scissorhands before you see him, as Johnny Depp cowers in the shadows, metallic fingers clinking. But Jordan Kai Burnett, taking the lead role in this jukebox musical reinvention, is no wallflower. They storm the stage with the famous shears raised, imploring us to lift our hands and make some noise.

Previously performed in Los Angeles, co-produced by Michelle Visage and ‘NSync’s Lance Bass, Scissorhandz lands in London like a fully fledged cult hit. Visage’s voiceover welcomes an audience of “beautiful weirdos” and treats us as a pre-existing fan club.

At Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London, until 29 March